As Head of the International Law Support Unit at the Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP), I oversee and lead the organization's strategic legal work across International Human Rights Law (IHRL), International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and International Criminal Law (ICL). My role focuses on leveraging international law innovatively to advance accountability efforts for Syria. I manage the Unit's diverse projects and provide strategic direction to ensure alignment with our mission.In… Show more As Head of the International Law Support Unit at the Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP), I oversee and lead the organization's strategic legal work across International Human Rights Law (IHRL), International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and International Criminal Law (ICL). My role focuses on leveraging international law innovatively to advance accountability efforts for Syria. I manage the Unit's diverse projects and provide strategic direction to ensure alignment with our mission.In addition to overseeing the Unit's portfolio, I lead SLDP's groundbreaking work on strategic engagement with the Global South, fostering partnerships to enhance accountability frameworks and processes for Syria. I also spearhead SLDP's distinctive victim-centered approach, offering tailored legal support to Syrian victims, survivors, and family groups. This involves providing legal empowerment, and co-creating advocacy and legal strategies to support the effective exercise and fulfillment of their rights to truth, justice and remedy, and to ensure that their right to participation is respected and guaranteed in justice and accountability processes. Show less

I lead - an innovative advocacy strategy with the Global South, including: mapping partnerships and targets, providing training, capacity-building material and opportunities to Syrian partners, co-creating with Syrian victims/survivors/families associations activities aimed at creating a victim-centered platform of allies within UN fora- a first-ever project of victim-centered legal and advocacy support for victims/survivors/families associations, including: identifying victims' rights… Show more I lead - an innovative advocacy strategy with the Global South, including: mapping partnerships and targets, providing training, capacity-building material and opportunities to Syrian partners, co-creating with Syrian victims/survivors/families associations activities aimed at creating a victim-centered platform of allies within UN fora- a first-ever project of victim-centered legal and advocacy support for victims/survivors/families associations, including: identifying victims' rights and right to participation challenges/opportunities and formulate ad-hoc advocacy/legal strategies, delivering advisory assistance to victims/survivors/families associations on international law, victims' rights and the right to participation, and co-creating relevant advocacy/legal initiatives together with victims/survivors and familiesI also continue to be involved in and oversee alignement with SLDP strategy of proactive and reactive legal support to Syrian partners, legal research on IL issues arising from the Syrian context, and strategic litigation initiatives with UN human rights bodies. Show less

During my previous role as Legal Analysts, I have been the driving force behind SLDP's important work with victims/survivors and families of victims' associations. This led to a general mainstreaming of a victim-centered approach throughout the whole work of SLDP and across units, leading to it being institutionalized within the new strategy for the upcoming years. I have been promoted to Legal Officer / Victims Rights and Participation Specialist to continue leading such work at SLDP and in… Show more During my previous role as Legal Analysts, I have been the driving force behind SLDP's important work with victims/survivors and families of victims' associations. This led to a general mainstreaming of a victim-centered approach throughout the whole work of SLDP and across units, leading to it being institutionalized within the new strategy for the upcoming years. I have been promoted to Legal Officer / Victims Rights and Participation Specialist to continue leading such work at SLDP and in providing ad-hoc, survivor/victim-centric support to Syrian associations of survivors/victims and families. Within my role, I am responsible for: - Identifying victims' rights and participation challenges and opportunities and formulate legal intervention and advocacy strategies - Producing/delivery advisory assistance on victims' rights, victims' participation to SLDP partners and victims/survivors associations- Acting as victim/survivor-centered approach advisor within SLDPIn addition, I will continue to act as Legal Officer within ILSU in relation to proactive and reactive legal support, and in the strategic engagement with non-traditional States. Show less

- conducting legal research and developing reports on international legal issues that arise in the Syrian context- providing capacity-building and technical assistance for Syrian human rights organizations on issues pertaining to international law, with a focus on/expertise in IHL, IHRL and transitional justice.- providing ad-hoc legal consultation to Syrian human rights organizations in the context of advocacy, campaigning, documentation and policy development efforts.-… Show more - conducting legal research and developing reports on international legal issues that arise in the Syrian context- providing capacity-building and technical assistance for Syrian human rights organizations on issues pertaining to international law, with a focus on/expertise in IHL, IHRL and transitional justice.- providing ad-hoc legal consultation to Syrian human rights organizations in the context of advocacy, campaigning, documentation and policy development efforts.- coordinating, conducting outreach to and identifying opportunities for intervention and advocacy- responsible for advocacy and outreach with UN Missions and local NGOs in targeted countries for engagement, advocacy and parallel advocacy- responsible for streamlining transitional justice theory&practice into ILSU initiatives (ex. researched and drafted complaint to SR on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence) Show less

I provide pro-bono legal consultancy on international law in Syria to a diverse group of stakeholders and beneficiaries, primarily victims/survivors and families' associations. Issues I worked on include transitional justice responses to enforced disappearance in Syria, youth and transitional justice, a comparative transitional justice approach to forced displacement, a comparative transitional justice response to the issuance of death certificates by the Syrian regime, interim-relief measures… Show more I provide pro-bono legal consultancy on international law in Syria to a diverse group of stakeholders and beneficiaries, primarily victims/survivors and families' associations. Issues I worked on include transitional justice responses to enforced disappearance in Syria, youth and transitional justice, a comparative transitional justice approach to forced displacement, a comparative transitional justice response to the issuance of death certificates by the Syrian regime, interim-relief measures for women and children of people disappeared in Syria. Show less

Mandate: victims/survivors centered justice.I apply my expertise on victims' rights and victims' meaningful participation to produce analysis & plan targeted advocacy to identify and push for the necessary changes in law, policy and practice. I work collaboratively with grassroots victims' groups by bridging the gap and providing access to stakeholders.

I have assisted ASP core-team in developing, and building their Database of cases of Sexual Violence against men, boys and LGBTIQ individuals.

Lead researcher on Q: if and how sexual violence against men had been included in non-judicial transitional justice measures (ex. truth commissions, reparations programmes, institutional reforms and memorialization initiatives)

- monitoring/documenting human rights and international law violations in Syria in Arabic and English- responsible for conducting research on specific human rights, transitional justice and international law topics related to Syria- responsible for drafting reports for the IIIM- responsible for researching and writing posts for the website on issues related to transitional justice, accountability and human rights